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When is it vintage?
I was browsing eBay the other day and as usual I noticed many Barbies described as vintage which I certainly didn’t consider deserved that title. I have written before about how important it is to do...
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Fashion Doll Friday: Fun with Funtime Sindy
This week’s Friday Girl is Funtime Sindy. I decided to feature her this week because I was lucky enough to find her motorcycle suit on eBay for a good price and in Australia. I already had the scooter...
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Fashion Doll Friday: Unknown Teresa c2000s
Today’s Friday Girl is a belly button Teresa but I haven’t yet worked out who she is. I have a crate of dolls downstairs marked “Good ones”. They are dolls from the 180 that I like and will add to my...
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Fashion Doll Friday: A Walk In The Park 1982
Today’s Friday Girl is one of my 1980s Sindy’s who is helping me present a Sindy Scenesetter called Walk In The Park. Naomi gave me this for my birthday earlier this week. The set came with the pram...
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Fashion Doll Friday – Barbie and the Rockers Dee Dee 1985-86
Today’s Friday Girl is Dee Dee, from Barbie and the Rockers. She was last featured in 2022. I bought Dee Dee from eBay and she did not come with any of her original outfit or accessories. I think...
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Fashion Doll Friday: Ideal HK Tammy c1964
Today’s Friday girl is Tammy. Yes, she’s new. I got her last week. I already have a lot of Tammy’s as you know but I didn’t have a brunette, now I do. She is one of the Hong Kong made Tammy’s and has...
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Ideal Crissy gets a new outfit
Crissy in the garden This is my Ideal Crissy. I haven’t photographed her very often. I took this one to show the outfit I made as I didn’t have any proper clothing for her. Below is a picture of a...
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Fashion Doll Friday: Surf’s Up Barbie 2008
Today’s Friday Girl is Surf’s Up Barbie from 2008. It’s winter here in Tasmania so this picture gives me the shivers but I’m sure it’s appropriate for the northern summer. I do believe some brave, or...
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Fashion Doll Friday: Style Barbie 2007
Updated 21 June, 3pm. Today’s Friday girl is a mystery, to me at least. I took these photos last week and hoped that I’d be able to ID her during the week. I did look at a lot of photos, including 7...
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Fashion Doll Friday – Hillary Duff Shopping Sisters 2006
Apologies for the late posting today. I was working on another project this afternoon and it took longer than I expected. This post was actually going to be a rerun but then as it was in the old...
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Fashion Doll Friday: Red, White and Blue
I thought I would do something different as a belated (for me) 4th of July. Here are: Sparkle Beach Christie in Barbie for President’s gown Myrtle in a vintage wedding dress Jan in a blue gown from...
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Fashion Doll Friday: The Turners
Today Fashion Doll Friday features Mr & Mrs Turner, Tammy’s parents. They don’t appear very often so I thought it would be nice to show them today. When I was a little girl and got my first Tammy...
View ArticleReblog: Magic Mary Jane Magnetic Paper Doll
I just came across this post from DeeGeeBee’s Virtual Black Doll Museum. We have featured these magnetic paper doll sets before but I had never seen this one. It probably wasn’t sold in Australia....
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Fashion Doll Friday: Fashion Queen Models Vintage
Our Friday Girl today is my Fashion Queen Barbie who hasn’t been featured for some time. I thought I would use her to share a couple of vintage pieces that I bought recently. I had planned to do this...
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I Might Be A Bit Late
Good morning, it’s Friday morning here in Australia and normally I would be planning my Fashion Doll Friday post. However, today is the day Naomi’s first art exhibition begins so I will be helping her...
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Fashion Doll Friday: Mattel Black Basics 001 #10 2010
Here is my belated Fashion Doll Friday post and sorry, it’s a rerun from 2019. By the way the art exhibition opening went very well. The weather was terrible so not a big turnout but everyone was very...
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Doll Detective Mailbag: A Soft Vinyl Doll from the 1950s.
I haven’t shared one of these for a while but I recently had an email from a reader in Canada asking about a doll so I’m putting it up hoping that our Canadian readers can help. My name is Abby. I’m a...
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Fashion Doll Friday – Denim Basics Barbie # 03 2011
After posting a Basics Barbie last week I realised that it had been a long time since I had featured them in Fashion Doll Friday posts, before last week the last time was in 2021. So I have recycled...
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Fashion Doll Friday – Fashionista Raquelle 2012
Our Friday Girl this week is none other than Marissa aka Fashionista Raquelle. I can’t believe that she hasn’t been a Friday Girl since 2014. Initially I didn’t care for the Fashionista line as I was...
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Fashion Doll Friday: Black Basics Barbie #02 2009
Our Friday Girl this week is another of my favourite Basics girls. She is Black Basics #02 and I unhesitatingly paid full price for her when she became available here in Tasmania because I thought she...
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